Umbrella notch and rib



(No Model.)

H. L. HEOK & W. S. KELLOGG.

UMBRELLA NOTGH AND RIB.

No. 495,831. Patented Apr. 11, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

HARRY L. HECK AND WILLIAM S. KELLOGG, OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS.

UMBRELLA NOTCH AND RIB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 495,331, dated April 11, 1893. Applioationfiled February 16, 1892. Serial No. 421,675. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern..-

Be it known that we, HARRY LOUIS HECK and WILLIAM S. KELLOGG, of Little Rock, in the county of Pulaski and State of Arkansas, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Umbrella-Frames, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to improvements in umbrellas and has for its object to provide an improved notch and means for attaching the cover to the ribs at a point intermediate of their lengths.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar figures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a section taken practically on the line 8-8 of Fig. 2, illustrating the medium employed for attaching the coverto the ribs at a point intermediate of the length of the latter. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of said medium; and Fig. 3 is a central vertical section through a stick and notch. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the lower section of the notch shown in Fig. 3 and viewed upon the line 14 14 of said figure; and Fig. 5 is an .enlarged view of one-half of the notch.

The device shown in Figs. 1 and 2 is especially adapted for attaching the cover to the ribs at a point intermediate of their lengths. This device consists of a Wire bent upon itself to form an eye or loop 34 at the top of a rib, the wire being carried down transversely at opposite sides of the rib until it reaches the inner or lower portion thereof, whereupon both strands are bent upward within the rib 30, which is ordinarily U-shaped in cross section, and is carried in opposite directions longitudinally of the rib, as shown at 34 and 34 in Fig. 2; and the eye or loop 34, is adapted to have stitched or secured thereon a cover 30, and if the cover is made up of a number of pieces the seams of the cover are so located that they may be secured to the eyes of the intermediate clamps, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

In Figs. 3, 4, 5, A represents the notch and consists in a body portion 10 and a cap or sleeve section 11. The body 10 is shaped as a sleeve or ferrule and provided between its ends with a flange provided with a series of sockets 36 in its upper face bisected by vertical slots 36 The T heads 35 of the ribs 17 rest in the sockets 36 and are held therein by the lower flanged end of the cap 11. The cap 11 and body 10 are connected by a spring lock connection; and to that end upon one end of the body section oppositely located springs section, to expand and enter apertures 38 in the cap section, the body section being provided with a recess 39, admitting of the spring passing inward to permit the cap section to be conveniently placed upon the body sec tion. The two sections may be readily disconnected by forcing the springs 37 inward in any suitable or approved manner.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent.

1. In an umbrella, the notch A consisting of the body 10 provided with a flange near its upper end having rib sockets, the recess 39 above the flange, and the spring 37 secured to the body adjacent to the said recess, and the cap 11 provided with the aperture 38 to receive the spring when the cap is forced upon the body, substantially as herein shown and described.

2. In an umbrella frame, the combination with a U-shaped rib, of a piece of wire bent to form an eye at the top of the rib then bent down on opposite sides of the rib then bent upward within the rib and its ends bent 1ongitudinally of the rib, substantially as and for 

